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Courses

All the courses in the offering in the learning year 2025-26 are published. Start curating your Learning Journey with us. Each course is structured as a specific learning module, which are designed to offer multiple entry points, intentionally flexible in a way that the learner can find their tempo along the way and choose the modules and the courses that works for them and their learning intent.

Syncretic Cultures & Practices ✕

Past courses 5

  • Past

    Bioregional Cultures: Sacred Sites, Ecology and Syncretism

    Delving into the historical inter-linkages of community sacred sites and the surrounding ecologies. A look into myths, legends, and how locally rooted rituals-practices help us understand the micro social and ecological relationships.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Muhharam Padagalu
    • Micro-Context: Local History
    • +4 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Place: Gulbarga
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
  • Past

    Rural Series: Pastoralism and land

    A travel based learning of Pastoral migration, and it’s unique knowledge and exchanges shared with the local land, migratory routes and places.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Place: Gulbarga
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Jatre as a communal practice

    Jatre are a moment for large public gatherings that intertwines cultural practices, religious festivals and local economy. In this travelling studio series we will learn from culturally rooted practice of Jatre in Bidar region

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Allamma Prabhu Jathre
    • Micro-Context: Jatre
    • +1 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Travelling Studio
    • Trimester: 02
  • Past

    Place as Archive - Syncretic Cultures

    In this practicum we will reimagine the idea of an archive as something that's alive and evolving. This module will directly learn from and contribute to Bidar Heritage Centre Archives, our long-term infrastructuring engagement.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Practices
    • Micro-Context: Agrarian Festivals
    • +2 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
    • Trimester: 01
  • Past

    Assembling the plural world

    3 – 14 Nov 2025

    Artefacts embedded in a place are containers of shared experiences among communities. In this unit we will assemble narratives through cultural artefacts to initiate a public dialogue.

    • Schools For Concentration: Syncretic Cultures & Practices
    • Micro-Context: Community Histories Practices Dhors
    • Micro-Context: Community Histories Practices Gowli
    • +2 More Micro-Context
    • Place: Bidar
    • Learning Module: Deliberate Practice
    • Trimester: 02